NORA EDINGER For the Sunday News-Register
Frank Borsk, member of the Freshwater Bioassessment team in Region 3.
USEPA photo by Eric Vance
WHEELING On a day as fine as April can muster, buttercups are whooping it up on the rich silt left behind by winter flooding on Wheeling Island. A pileated woodpecker is chuckling somewhere in the trees, his pterodactyl-style head somehow hidden from view despite his grand size.
It’s the kind of day and place Frank Borsuk has seen hundreds of times. Maybe millions of times if that is possible in a mere 55 years. But, it hasn’t grown old.
“Cincinnati’s location is one of its primary advantages that we can sell,” he said.
REDI can assist companies with site selection, provide subject matter experts knowledgeable about topics such as labor data and market research, and help with obtaining incentives, financing and marketing.
Businesses considering Cincinnati are interested in knowing that by freight tonnage, the region is one of the largest inland ports in the United States, he said. They also want access to the area’s two designated foreign trade zones and multimodal transportation, both within a day’s drive to more than half the country’s population.
Cincinnati Magazine
February 25, 2021
In a valley off of the wide bowl that cradles downtown Cincinnati, a long-buried creek has returned to the daylight. Where blighted buildings stood shoulder to shoulder along Queen City and Westwood avenues, a stream again runs, riffles, falls, and pools. It undulates past a playground, basketball courts, and a community space.
Lick Run Greenway brings an ancient creek back to the surface between Queen City (on the right) and Westwood avenues in South Fairmount.
Photograph by Deb Leonard
The creek is both ancient and new. And the next chapter in its life could welcome a brighter future for a neglected neighborhood.
Ash from Indiana s coal-burning power plants is contaminating groundwater across the state, rendering it unsafe to drink. But unlike some other states, Indiana is not requiring utility companies to remove the toxic ash from leaky pits.
Indiana has more than 80 pits holding the cancer-causing coal byproduct. That s more than any other state in America. The vast majority of them are unlined, in contact with groundwater and at risk of being washed into rivers or streams because they sit in floodplains. They ve already rendered the groundwater around 14 of 15 power plants across the state no longer safe enough for drinking water, according to the latest monitoring data.
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